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That was my first thought too. It's a very small step from It sounds like you might hurt yourself, sending help. to It sounds like you don't agree with
by imglorp 10y ago
That was my first thought too. It's a very small step from
It sounds like you might hurt yourself, sending help.
to
It sounds like you don't agree with the Party, comrade. We're
sending the happiness team to collect your family for retraining.
- zardo 10y agoThat seems like a pretty big step to me. Would you oppose 911 systems on the same grounds? It's such a small step from: Your house is on fire, let's do something about that. to Forced fire safety re-educatation camps.
- imglorp 10y agoBoth of the increments in my example depend on sentiment analysis of private communications. That tech opens a whole brave new world.
- zardo 10y agoBoth of my examples involve your neighbor using telecommunications to report you to the government. That a technology could be used to do bad things, is not a very good reason not to use it to do good things. Would not providing automated suicide support prevent malicious use of sentiment analysis? Just because they use the same underlying technology doesn't mean one use causes the other use.
- imglorp 10y agoYeah. I guess it's more a social issue: if a tech can get abused to support the state's goals--we are quickly finding--that it will get abused. Quick example: Alexa has already gotten its first subpoena for a presumed private voice conversation in someone's home.